Grand Maitre Wood – Chef's Knife – 15 cm – Gift Box

Victorinox Grand Maitre Wood chef's knife with a 15 cm long blade and wooden handle, in gift box.
Features:
• Blade material: forged stainless steel
• Blade length: 15 cm
• Blade width: 3 cm
• Handle material: modified maple
• Handle length: 14.5 cm
• Overall length: 29.5 cm
• Weight: 172 g
Further manufacturer information:
Victorinox Grand Maître Wood series. The Grand Maître Wood forged knife series offers exceptional quality, balance and timeless elegance. Both amateur and professional chefs will love these knives, turning their kitchen into a palace and treating their loved ones to extraordinary meals. The blade is made of rust-resistant, wear-resistant steel, evenly hardened and forged from a single piece. The knife is full tang, the blade running through the handle. The transition at the base of the blade is smooth and seamless. The bolster prevents the hand from sliding onto the blade. The elegant wooden handle, made of high-quality modified maple, has an ergonomic design that guarantees comfort and excellent handling even over longer periods. Producing modified maple is an environmentally friendly, patented process that increases the wood's durability and hardness and gives it its rich brown colour. With more than 130 years of experience, Victorinox is proud to make knives of outstanding quality. The brand offers a lifetime guarantee against defects in material and workmanship. Dishwasher use is not recommended.
Modified maple
Modified maple is produced by an environmentally friendly, patented process that uses a bio-based liquid to improve the properties of sustainable softwoods. The process permanently changes the wood's cell structure, giving it excellent properties and a rich brown colour.
There are various wood modification methods, each of which permanently changes the structure of the cell walls. These include heat treatment, acetylation and polymer grafting. The modified wood we use is produced by forming solid furan polymers that bond to the wood's cells. This increases the stability, durability and hardness of the wood.
The process is based on impregnation with furfuryl alcohol, a liquid produced from agricultural bio-products. A plant-based waste product is thus used to give another plant product, namely wood, increased strength and durability.
Step 1: Impregnation. Impregnation is the process of soaking the wood in a bio-based liquid. During impregnation, the furfuryl alcohol produced from the bio-based liquid is fixed into the wood so that its dimensions remain stable.
Step 2: Curing and drying. After impregnation the wood is heat-dried, which polymerises the furfuryl alcohol. This step is called hardening. The polymers formed in the wood's cells by this process are very stable and cannot break down or leave the wood.
Step 3: Modified maple. After treatment the wood's cell walls are about 50% thicker due to the stable, fixed polymers.
The permanent modification of the wood's cells ensures outstanding stability, maximum hardness and a guaranteed long service life for the wood product. The wood offers a high level of safety, as it rarely splinters and contains no toxins or chemicals.
In addition, modified maple resists rot, fungi and other wood-destroying micro-organisms.
A low-maintenance material that requires no treatment beyond normal cleaning, such as oiling or other impregnating solutions.